Dolphin Tale

MOVIE FOR HOPE FUNDRAISER FOR RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE Unfortunate titular puns aside, this based-on-a-true-story of a boy who forms an enduring friendship with an injured dolphin is “a kid’s movie without condescension.” (Variety) All tickets $5 | Presented by Mr. Firestone’s grade four class at Mutchmor Public School and Mark Lalonde of

Coriolanus

Screenwriter John Logan (Hugo, Rango, Gladiator) is working from pretty good source material (Shakespeare’s tragedy about a fierce warrior who is banished from, and vows revenge on, Rome), and director/star Fiennes brings his script to visceral life, confronting “issues of class, duty, valor, and civilian-military relations and dynamics… with a

Casa de Mi Padre

OTTAWA PREMIERE Proyectando en una forma de ahorrar rancho de su padre, los hermanos Álvarez se encuentran en una guerra con el señor de las drogas en México más temido en esta película rodada íntegramente en español. Con Will Ferrell, Gael García Bernal y Diego Luna. English subtitles (Which is

Going Blind

Landsdowne Follies III: Folly Harder

Enjoy the music of Ian Tamblyn, Amanda Rheaume, Tara Holloway, and the Just Voices community choir while supporting transparency and accountability from our local government. All proceeds will be used to support the Friends of Lansdowne legal challenge. Learn more at letsgetitright.ca. Sunday, Apr. 15 | 4:00 PM

Doppelganger Paul

OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, TIFF 2011 When Karl’s manuscript (A Book About How Much I Hate Myself) is stolen, he meets Paul, who seems to be his doppelganger — despite the fact they look nothing alike. The kind of “meta-comedy that we’ve come to expect from Charlie Kaufman… [with

Stone Killer, The

SATURDAY NIGHT SINEMA | FREE FOR MEMBERS One year before Death Wish, director Winner teamed with Charles Bronson to tell this story of a detective out to stop a Mafia assassination plot — that uses Vietnam veterans as the killers! “Probably the best violent big-city police movie since Dirty Harry.”

Carleton University History Department presents: The Humanitarians: A (Very) Short History in Two Documentary Films

The Carleton University History Department presents a FREE screening of two documentaries on humanitarian aid: Humanitarian Citadel (about the International Committee of the Red Cross’ work during Yemen’s Civil War) and The Fight Against Typhus (about the ICRC’s work in Poland in the wake of WWI). For more

Everything is Terrible presents “DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez!”

Everything Is Terrible! (everyone’s favorite found footage chop shoppe) returns with a move composed entirely of dog-related found footage — that is also, somehow, a remake of Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain. Are you dog enough? Then go fetch! Mar. 28 | 9:15 PM | $6 members | $10 general |

Into The Abyss

OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, TIFF 2011 The pane of glass separating Werner Herzog from his interview subject — death row inmate Michael Perry — becomes a window into the death penalty debate in this challenging doc, which “never… suggest[s] that there’s a black-and-white simplicity to the [issue]. Herzog looks